Grade "A+" Accredited by NAAC with a CGPA of 3.46
Grade "A+" Accredited by NAAC with a CGPA of 3.46

Narander Kumar Nigam, Ph.D.

Areas of Expertise

  • Financial econometrics
  • Derivatives and International Finance

Narander Kumar Nigam, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Growth is Life

Biography

Dr. Nigam is Assistant Professor of Finance at Department of Management Studies, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi. Hestarted his career in the corporate world after finishing graduation. He has more than10,000 hours of Professional Experiencein the field of stock market particularly in NYMEX, COMEX, LME, SHFE, DGCX, USE, NCDEX, MCX-SX, MCX etc. after which he pursued post-graduation from Department of Commerce, Delhi University. He switched his line from corporate to academics and began his teaching career from Shri Ram College of Commerce. He was actively engaged in extracurricular activities and was the recipient of numerous medals in sports at the college as well as school level. He has held various positions of responsibility in the Students’ Union of his college and received the prestigious Principal Madan Mohan Medal (SRCC) for all round excellence in college. His specialisation is finance and he has published research papers on contemporary issues in reputed journals.

Education

  • PhD,Finance (Strategy)-Department of Financial Studies, University of Delhi.
  • Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF-UGC) Commerce
  • M.Com. Department of Commerce, University of Delhi.
  • B. Com (H), University of Delhi.

Publications

  • Negatively Related Diversification, Positively Related Diversification and Firm’s Performance: Measurement and Application.”along with Prof. C.P. Gupta, published in Global Business Review,2019, Ranked C in ABDC Journal Index
  • “Correlation based Diversification and Firm Performance: Empirical investigation of India along with Prof. C.P. Gupta, published in Global Business Review’18, Ranked C in ABDC Journal Index. The paper was awarded best paper at IISc, Bangalore (COSMAR-18).
  • “A Meta-study of the Measures of Corporate Diversification, with Prof. C.P. Gupta published in Business Analyst’18
  • Financial Literacy Amongst Indian Higher Education Institutions: A Study of University of Delhi’s Students, along with Asst. Prof. Saumya Jain, published in Business Analyst, 2018
  • “Behaviour and Determinants of Implied Volatility in Indian Market” (2016), with Asst. Prof. Narain and Asst. Prof. Piyush in Journal of Advances in Management Research, Emerald Journal, Vol 13 (3), pp 271-291. The paper was Highly Commended paper in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.